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Young Canadian squad races to fifth in World Cup luge relay in Germany
WINTERBERG, Germany - Canada's young luge team raced to fifth place in the relay at a World Cup on Sunday. Trinity Ellis, a 19-year-old from Pemberton, B.C., Reid Watts, a 23-year-old from Whistler, B...
Jan 2, 2022
Omicron's New Year's cocktail: Sorrow, fear, hope for 2022
PARIS (AP) - Sorrow for the dead and dying, fear of more infections to come and hopes for an end to the coronavirus pandemic were - again - the bittersweet cocktail with which the world said good ridd...
Jan 2, 2022
Finding unmarked graves put spotlight on reconciliation in 2021
OTTAWA - Murray Sinclair says there was something he found difficult after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its final report into the history and legacy of residential school...
Jan 2, 2022
Major Quebec hospital postpones half of surgeries, appointments due to COVID-19 spike
MONTREAL - Quebec City's main hospital network says it will postpone half of its surgeries and medical appointments starting Wednesday. The announcement from CHU de Qubec-Universit Laval comes as the ...
Jan 2, 2022
Remote communities locking down, banning outsiders as COVID-19 spreads
OTTAWA - The latest wave of COVID-19 is bringing health-care resources in some remote communities in Canada to the breaking point as case numbers explode. Record-breaking cases have been documented ac...
Jan 2, 2022
Sudan’s PM announces resignation amid political deadlock
CAIRO (AP) - Sudan's prime minister says he has resigned amid political deadlock following a military coup that derailed the country's fragile transition. Abdalla Hamdok announced his resignation in a...
Jan 2, 2022
N.L. politicians remember former provincial and federal cabinet minister John Efford
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Flags at government buildings in Newfoundland and Labrador will be flying at half-mast following the death of former provincial and federal cabinet minister John Efford, who died to...
Jan 2, 2022
Liverpool wilts, Chelsea recovers to leave City the winner
LONDON (AP) - The only winner Sunday was Manchester City. And Romelu Lukaku certainly lost out. What a pulsating, entertaining encounter for Lukaku to miss -- not out of his own choosing -- as Chelsea...
Jan 2, 2022
Feds, Indigenous leaders to announce child welfare compensation agreement Tuesday
OTTAWA - An agreement in principle that will see Ottawa pay billions in compensation to First Nations children harmed by an underfunded child welfare system is set to be announced in Ottawa this week....
Jan 2, 2022
Another World Cup bobsled medal for de Bruin, bronze with Bujnowski in the two-woman
SIGULDA, Latvia - Christine de Bruin and Kristen Bujnowski captured World Cup bronze in the two-woman bobsled on Sunday, and coming at the end of a very tough week for the Canadian team, were happy to...
Jan 2, 2022
